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Akash Gupta
- Academic year: 5th year PhD
- Major: planetary science
- Research interests: How do planets form and evolve with time?
- Hobbies: Climbing
- Email: akashgpt(at)g.ucla.edu
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Valeria Jaramillo (she/her)
- Academic year: 3rd year PhD
- Major: structural geology
- Research interests: structural geology, geochronology, thermobarometry
- Hobbies: Enjoying an amazing, cloudy, colorful beach sunset. Hiking, eating, and hanging out with friends.
- Email: jaramillov29(at)g.ucla.edu
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Arthur Lo (he/him)
- Academic year: 4th year undergraduate
- Major: geophysics
- Research interests: plate tectonics, mantle dynamics, and volcanoes
- Hobbies: Hiking, singing
- Email: wklo(at)g.ucla.edu
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Morgan Carrington (she/they)
- Academic year: 4th year undergraduate
- Major: geology
- Research interests: planetary surface processes, structural geology, planetary analogs
- Hobbies: Stargazing, listening to and finding new music, trying new foods, puzzles, camping, hiking, swimming
- Email: mcarrington4(at)gmail.com
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Xiyuan Bao (he/him)
- Academic year: 4th year PhD
- Major: geophysics
- Research interests: Mantle dynamics, plate tectonics
- Hobbies: reading novel, watching TV series
- Email: xiyuanbao(at)g.ucla.edu
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Teresa Huang (she/her)
- Academic year: 4th year undergraduate
- Major: engineering geology
- Research interests: I want to go into the geotechnical industry
- Hobbies: thrifting, baking, crocheting, and video games
- Email: teresamhuang(at)gmail.com
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Lauren Tafla (she/her)
- Academic year: 2nd year PhD
- Major: geochemistry
- Research interests: isotope geochemistry and cosmochemistry
- Hobbies: outdoor activities and art
- Email: laurentafla(at)ucla.edu
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Professor Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni
- Position: Louis B. and Martha B. Slichter Endowed Chair in Geosciences, UCLA EPSS
- Education:
- PhD in Geology, 1994 (University of California at Berkeley)
- BSc in Geology, 1987 (University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez)
- Research interests: plate tectonics, mantle dynamics, thermodynamics of mantle minerals
- Hobbies: Comic books
- Email: clb(at)epss.ucla.edu